Re: [Gimp-user] Building GIMP 2.10 from source on OSX fails on “gimp-debug-tool-2.0”

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

You are missing Cocoa in your build. Seriously, building on OSX is not an
easy task. But you don't have to take my word for it. :)

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:10 AM ausrius <forums gimpusers com> wrote:

> I was trying to build GIMP 2.10 on OSX for a week now with no success.
> Most of
> the problems were all the different dependencies and such. While it took
> time
> all of it was solvable but now I think I came to an dead end. I have gone
> to the
> stage where I could finally run "make" and after some time of building
> different
> things it errors out on "gimp-debug-tool-2.0". Here is the output log:
>
> Making all in app-tools
>   CCLD     gimp-debug-tool-2.0
> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>   "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSString", referenced from:
>       objc-class-ref in libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
>   "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSWorkspace", referenced from:
>       objc-class-ref in libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
>   "_objc_autoreleasePoolPop", referenced from:
>       _gimp_critical_dialog_response in
> libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
>   "_objc_autoreleasePoolPush", referenced from:
>       _gimp_critical_dialog_response in
> libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
>   "_objc_msgSend", referenced from:
>       _gimp_critical_dialog_response in
> libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
> invocation)
> make[2]: *** [gimp-debug-tool-2.0] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I have got similar errors when I was building Qt, OpenCv applications. The
> problem there was that libraries were missing and I solved it by providing
> paths
> to those libraries. But what could possibly be missing when building
> "gimp-debug-tool-2.0" which seems to be internal tool.
>
> If somebody had any similar experience or has any clue/hint on how I could
> solve
> this problem and could point me to the right direction it would be very
> much
> appreciated.
>
> Tanks in advance.
>
> --
> ausrius (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)
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